Life With One Direction

Chapter 17

Mary's Point of View

I'd made it to the hospital at mid day, rushing to find my mum.

Even if I hadn't spoken to her in such a long time, I still loved her.

I just can't believe all of this is happening!

Tyler, Millie and Spencer called me around half an hour ago to make sure that I'd arrived home safely.

It took me a whole entire week to be able to call Louis and let him know.

As soon as I'd arrived at the hospital, I had found my mother asleep and was dragged to a doctors office to discuss everything.

Me being a med student understood it more than what most adults would have.

My mum had a week left, seven days left of her life.

Now it's seven that she'll get to spend with me and Louis.

She had already known how much time she had but hadn't let me or Louis know.

If she wasn't in such a condition I would have probably screamed at her for lying.

I'd already been with my mother for a week before I found out she only had that much time left.

I'd spent the whole first week sitting in her room and crying.

She only woke up for short periods of time and we only had a long conversation once.

When I found out the time left, I decided that Louis now needed to know.

I knew he'd hate me if I knew and didn't tell him, he had to spend at least a little time with his mum before she... Left.

"Em, you're here," she whispered after I had made the phone call.

"Of course I'm here mum. Why didn't you tell me?" I cried as I hugged myself close to her.

"Get in," she whispered again.

I realized that she couldn't speak louder than that, louder than a whisper. If she did, she'd probably be in pain.

I got into the uncomfortable hospital bed and she tucked the sheets around us both.

"Because I didn't want you to see me like this," she gestured around the room with all the wires connected to her body and pointed at her sunken looking face last.

"But mum if you had... If you had gone and we hadn't had this week... I would have never ever forgiven myself. I've wasted so much time I could've had with you in the past year and..." I cried into her shoulder and felt tears from her face fall into my own.

She shushed me soothingly through her own tears and stroked my hair like she always would do when I was sad.

"We just have to cherish the time we have and make the most of it."

"Seven days mum. What are we supposed to make of seven days?" I still cried.

"Baby it'll be okay," she still stroked my hair.

"I want to know what's happened in your life, since you left Doncaster."

I told her everything, all about Harry and the way I felt about him to Tyler and how we weren't really a couple to Ed Sheeran asking me to do a duet with him.

"I want you to do two things for me," she asked.

"Anything," I replied.

"Firstly, I want you to give Harry a chance. You'll never know unless you try and you'll always wonder 'what if'" she quoted Zayn. "It's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all, right?" she said.